July 26, 2022

Here’s a look at recent changes in the business landscape in the Sioux Falls area.

Chloe Koval has started On the Run Mobile Dog Gym, serving Sioux Falls and surrounding communities. She has equipped a van with a self-propelled treadmill to exercise a dog at the owner’s home.

Oh My Cupcakes has added a mobile pop-up shop. The trailer can be booked for private or public events. Customers can find about a dozen cupcake flavors, including gluten-friendly and keto versions.

Slim Chickens has opened its third restaurant in Sioux Falls. The new location at 2301 E. 10th St. is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. The locally owned franchise features fried chicken sandwiches and tenders.

Lewis Drug is expanding to Watertown. The store will be the Sioux Falls-based company’s 58th location in the region. It’s expected to open in early 2023 in a new retail development next to Montgomery’s Furniture.

Wholestone Farms plans to open a custom butcher shop at the location planned for its future pork processing plant — before a November election that could prohibit the company from expanding here. The shop will allow customers to select a Wholestone farmer and order a pig turned into Wholestone-branded products — from pork chops to pork loins. The site is at the southeast corner of Benson Road and Interstate 229.

Heather Lowry has opened Boho Bougie Style Co. in The Village on Louise shopping center at 57th Street and Louise Avenue. The store, which features a mix of bohemian hippie-inspired fashion with Western flair, is open Wednesday through Sunday and by appointment the other days.

A mother-daughter duo with a passion for people and sewing is transforming a former event space in the River Plaza retail center on South Shirley Avenue  into a quilting design studio. Jacqueline Joyce Stitch Studio will focus on quilting, embroidery and other personal sewing projects. The women behind the business are Beatrice Joyce “BJ” Dvorak and daughter Jacqueline Economo. It’s expected to open in the fall.

First Stop Coffee Shop has opened in a parking lot at 12th and Ellis. The drive-up kiosk owned by Judy Swearingen is open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. First Stop offers several types of coffee drinks as well as smoothies, Italian sodas and matcha and chai teas. It also serves made-from-scratch breakfast sandwiches and burritos.

Minneapolis-based True North Equity Partners, which also owns the Sioux Falls Canaries, has acquired Sioux Falls-based trucking company Dakotaland Transportation. The 48-state contract carrier will continue to operate under the same name, and its approximately 60 employees are keeping their jobs.

Archer’s Addiction has new owners and a new location. Justin Hackett, Mike Boer and Tim Skyberg purchased the archery range and pro shop from founder Mark Berndt. The business is in a new building just south of the Renner Corner along Highway 115. Hackett said the new state-of-the-art building offers more lighting, indoor capacity, elevated shooting, 3D targets and training courses than the previous building that sat east of the Renner/Crooks exit for Interstate 29.

Natural Grocers will open Wednesday at 2601 S. Louise Ave. It’s the first South Dakota location for the Colorado-based family-owned chain, which features organic and natural products.

Toys R Us will begin selling toys inside every Macy’s department store by mid-October, the company has announced. The business filed for bankruptcy and closed its Sioux Falls store in 2018. Macy’s has a location in The Empire Mall.

Simon’s Tacos has opened at 5300 S. Louise Ave. It’s owned by the Alvarez Argueta family, who also owns and operates Yessica’s Mexican and Italian Restaurant in Brookings. The menu is inspired by a California-style taqueria concept. Hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday.

Raven Engineered Films has a new name: Viaflex. The former division of Sioux Falls-based Raven Industries was acquired in April by Industrial Opportunity Partners, which is positioning it as an independent, stand-alone business.

Preach-es, a high-end sneaker store and boutique, has opened in downtown Sioux Falls. It’s on the first floor of the newly renovated Johnson Building at 11th Street and Second Avenue and focuses on streetwear, rare sneakers and high-end apparel at what the owners call competitive prices. The business also carries designer clothes, bags and wallets. Preach-es is open Tuesday through Sunday.

Unity Rd., a marijuana dispensary, opens Wednesday in Hartford. The franchise is owned by B.J. Olson and Adam Jorgensen. Customers must have a South Dakota-issued medical cannabis license to purchase the drug. To start, it will be open Wednesday through Sunday.

Jimmy John’s is planning to open its sixth location in Sioux Falls. Building plans have been submitted for a space in a retail center on the east side of the Walmart at Marion Road and 60th Street North.

Talon, a Sioux Falls development firm, is building an apartment and town home complex in Hartford. Maple Pass will have a total of 138 apartments in two buildings and 40 town home units, with the first ones opening next summer.

Sioux Falls-based Assam Cos. is building 80 town home-style units in the Turtle Creek subdivision in Hartford. They’re scheduled to be ready by the end of the year.

Bob and Lori Gilliland are the new owners of The Goat Bar & Grill in Hartford.

Remedy Brewing Co. is opening a second taproom in early August. Remedy at 611 will be in the brewery’s main production facility at 611 N. West Ave. It’s described as “an adult playground in a dive-bar form” with pool tables and dart boards and will serve Remedy’s core beers on tap and in cans. It will be open Thursday and Friday nights and from noon into the evening Saturday and Sunday.

A discount store that sells overstocked and returned merchandise has opened at 2707 S. Carolyn Ave. Crate started in Rapid City. Merchandise bins include everything from clothing and makeup to food and household items. Prices start at $9 for each item on Fridays and are marked down each day until Mondays when they’re sold for $1. Larger items are sold at reduced prices. Hours are noon to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

A Hotworx infrared fitness studio has opened at 2400 S. Marion Road in the Lake Lorraine development. The franchise is owned by Max Chedester and his parents, Pat and Stacy. Members can work out in one of eight saunas on a variety of equipment and follow exercises led by virtual instructors. An additional fitness space offers weights, medicine balls, dumbbells and kettlebells. The fitness studio offers 24/7 access.

Fair Market, a reduced-price grocery store, has been purchased by Empower Sioux Falls, which plans to add locations. The nonprofit organization seeks to enhance efforts to feed those in the community who are hungry. The new stores will include 60 to 70 staple food items such as rice, carrots, hamburger, noodles and eggs.

Two families have started a learning center offering Montessori-style education for children. 605 Prep Montessori Learning Center serves children from as young as 6 weeks up to 6 years old. The new center at 39th Street and Phillips Avenue has five classrooms, a fenced-in playground and capacity for 63 children, including 10 infants.

Franchise owner Todd Porter has confirmed that PizzaRev isn’t coming back. He closed the quick-service restaurant on 49th Street west of Louise Avenue on Aug. 26, 2021, saying it was a temporary measure related to staffing shortages

Survivors Joining for Hope, a nonprofit that provides financial support to families who have suffered a suicide loss, will cease to be an independent organization Aug. 1, but its work and name will continue as a department of the suicide prevention organization Lost & Found. The mission for Lost & Found, which was founded in 2010 and works with 13 post-secondary institutions in South Dakota and Minnesota, has been updated to include youth as young as 10 and suicide postvention. SJ4H was founded in 2016 by Brad Hearst after his brother, Sergei Joseph Hearst, died by suicide.